Famous Inventors & Scientists
RF Cafe Quiz #11
All RF Cafe quizzes would make perfect fodder for employment interviews for technicians or engineers - particularly those who are fresh out of school or are relatively new to the work world. Come to think of it, they would make equally excellent study material for the same persons who are going to be interviewed for a job.
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Note: Many answers contain passages quoted in whole or in part from the text.
1.a) Alexander Graham Bell
b) Albert Einstein
c) Al Gore (think Internet)
2. a) James Clerk Maxwell
b) Albert Einstein
c) Colonel Sanders
3. a) Thomas Alva Edison
b) General Electric
c) Nikola Tesla
4. a) Galileo Gallilei
b) Sir Isaac Newton
c) Bob Pease (National Semiconductor)
5. a) Eli Whitney
b) Thomas Alva Edison
c) Charles Dickens
6. a) Joan of Arc
b) Sally Ride
c) Marie Curie
7. a) James Clerk Maxwell
b) Jacques Cousteau
c) Alexander Graham Bell
8. a) Sir Isaac Newton
b) Diogenes of Sinope
c) Benjamin Franklin
9. a) Linus Pauling
b) Robert Goddard
c) Orville Wright
10. a) Benjamin Franklin
b) Thomas Edison
c) Alexander Graham Bell
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